900 year old Saint's Heart stolen from Cathedral

[BoomerD]

Unchain my heart,
Baby let me be.
Unchain my heart
'Cause you don't care about me.
Why lead me through a life of misery
When you don't care a bag of beans for me.
Unchain my heart and let me be.

Fucker...I'm gonna have that stuck in my head all damned day...


(one of my favorite Joe Cocker tunes.)

 

[IronWing]

Fucker...I'm gonna have that stuck in my head all damned day...


(one of my favorite Joe Cocker tunes.)

You have the Joe Cocker version in your head? I'm sorry. Maybe this will help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA_s3VbSHLA

 

[BoomerD]

You have the Joe Cocker version in your head? I'm sorry. Maybe this will help.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA_s3VbSHLA

That one's good, and I know it's the "original,"...but I like this one better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zihe13sdHTE&feature=related

whoa...time warp.

 

[zinfamous]

Nirvana fan?

What I actually find disturbing is the idea of cutting a heart out of a body and storing it in a wooden box in a church for 900 years.

99.98% of all relics are not what they claim to be.

Merely some relic hunter went on a mission to find St. JoeBloe's tongue or St Rottencrotch's britches and after 10 years of fruitless searching, simply cut off the piece from some random, plague-killed peasant or buy some bauble from a merchant that bears a passable resemblance (of course--no one ever knows what these are supposed to look like, anyway) and returns it to the contracted church for a handsome reward and a hero's welcome.


And this has actually been calculated, that if you gather all of the fragments of "the true cross" that can be found in reliqueries around the world, you would have, I think 17 "true crosses."

 

[zinfamous]

That one's good, and I know it's the "original,"...but I like this one better:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zihe13sdHTE&feature=related

whoa...time warp.

Blasphemy!

But I do like Joe Cocker. Dude is a real class act on top of his general awesomeness as a musician.

 

[Saint Nick]

Too bad it wasn't a Daedric heart. Those come in handy from time to time

 

[Bateluer]

99.98% of all relics are not what they claim to be.

Merely some relic hunter went on a mission to find St. JoeBloe's tongue or St Rottencrotch's britches and after 10 years of fruitless searching, simply cut off the piece from some random, plague-killed peasant or buy some bauble from a merchant that bears a passable resemblance (of course--no one ever knows what these are supposed to look like, anyway) and returns it to the contracted church for a handsome reward and a hero's welcome.


And this has actually been calculated, that if you gather all of the fragments of "the true cross" that can be found in reliqueries around the world, you would have, I think 17 "true crosses."

Very true. The True Cross was 2,000 years ago though, by the time anyone wanted it, you could buy pieces of it from street peddlers. Spear of Destiny, the spear the stabbed Christ on the cross, is on display in Germany(?) I think. Dating puts it as a 6th century manufacturing though.

Lot of the Saints are from times when the church was far more established and a major power player, if not more recent times. They knew exactly where the Saint's body was interred.

 

[zinfamous]

Very true. The True Cross was 2,000 years ago though, by the time anyone wanted it, you could buy pieces of it from street peddlers. Spear of Destiny, the spear the stabbed Christ on the cross, is on display in Germany(?) I think. Dating puts it as a 6th century manufacturing though.

Lot of the Saints are from times when the church was far more established and a major power player, if not more recent times. They knew exactly where the Saint's body was interred.

Doesn't the Spear of Destiny hang mounted behind the Pope's pulpit, which is built on top of "St Peter's Grave?"

 

[Bateluer]

Doesn't the Spear of Destiny hang mounted behind the Pope's pulpit, which is built on top of "St Peter's Grave?"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Lance#Relics_claimed_to_be_the_Holy_Lance

There's a couple claimants, apparently.

Since Longinus was a Roman soldier though, I'd have to say he likely carried a standard issue weapon. So, anything with a spear point shaped like a crucifix would be an obvious fake.

 

[GundamW]

A "900 year old Saint's Heart"?

 

[Fenixgoon]

Too bad it wasn't a Daedric heart. Those come in handy from time to time

dude i've been saving those up. just got a mad loot of like 5 daedric hearts doing a single quest.

 

[Kadarin]

Am I the only one who finds it creepy as hell that the Catholic Church collects this stuff?

 

[mmntech]

Can I buy it on eBay? Should come in handy during my voodoo rituals.

 

[ch33zw1z]

Am I the only one who finds it creepy as hell that the Catholic Church collects this stuff?

Nope, you're not alone.